The World in 1922 the year a sealed door finally opened

The tomb in Egypt had been sealed for roughly 3,200 years. Count a family down from parent to child and that is more than 100 generations standing between the funeral and the day the door came open.

Life back then

Running water indoors was still a luxury. Plenty of houses had a pump in the yard and an outhouse out back, and a bath meant heating pans on the stove and filling a tin tub in the kitchen. Monday was washing day, done by hand with a washboard and a hand-cranked wringer, and it swallowed most of the day. Streets rang with engines and hooves together, because bakers, milkmen and coal merchants still delivered by horse. If you missed something, you waited for the evening paper.

The year in 8 events

• 💉Jan 23 A 13-year-old boy in Toronto begins daily insulin injections and quickly gets stronger. Diabetes is no longer a death sentence.
• 📖Feb 2 James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris on his 40th birthday.
• ⚖️Mar 18 Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison in India for writing against British rule. He is let out after two.
• 🏛️May 30 The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington.
• 📻Aug 28 A New York station sells ten minutes of air time to a housing company. It is the first radio advertisement.
• ⚔️Oct 28 Mussolini's Blackshirts march on Rome. Days later he is made prime minister of Italy.
• 🏺Nov 4 Howard Carter's workmen uncover a stone step cut into the rock in Egypt. It leads down to Tutankhamun's tomb.
• 🚩Dec 30 Four republics sign the treaty that creates the Soviet Union.

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